16 quotes found
“I saw him freeing me from the silences of the interior life.”
“There are kinds of solitude that provide a respite from loneliness, a holiday if not a cure.”
“Why do you put yourself in unsafe places? Because something in you feels fundamentally devoid of worth.”
“What does it feel like to be lonely? It feels like being hungry: like being hungry when everyone around you is readying for a feast.”
“The loneliness of difference, the loneliness of undesirability, the loneliness of not being admitted into the magic circles of connection and acceptance the social and professional groupings, the ...”
“[of Nan Goldin] In an afterword to Ballad written in 2012, she declared: I decided as a young girl I was going to leave a record of my life and experience that no one could rewrite or deny.”
“Hoppers paintings are full of women like her; women who appear to be in the grips of a loneliness that has to do with gender and unattainable standards of appearance, and that gets increasingly tox...”
“Is sex a cure for loneliness, and if it is, what happens if our body or sexuality is considered deviant or damaged, if we are ill or unblessed with beauty?”
“I felt like I was in danger of vanishing, though at the same time the feelings I had were so raw and overwhelming that I often wished I could find a way of losing myself altogether, perhaps for a f...”
“This is what's so terrifying about being lonely: the instinctive sense that it is literally repulsive, inhibiting contact at just the moment contact is most required.”
“Collapse, spread, merging, union: these things sound like the opposite of loneliness, and yet intimacy requires a solid sense of self to be successful and satisfying.”
“Loneliness is personal, and it is also political. Loneliness is collective; it is a city. As to how to inhabit it, there are no rules and nor is there any need to feel shame, only to remember that ...”
“I wanted very much not to be where I was. In fact part of the trouble seemed to be that where I was wasnt anywhere at all. My life felt empty and unreal... I felt like I was in danger of vanishing,...”
“Speech failures, communication breakdowns, misunderstandings, mishearings, episodes of muteness, stuttering and stammering, word forgetfulness, even the inability to grasp a joke: all these things ...”
“[of Nan Goldin] In an afterword to Ballad written in 2012, she declared: ‘I decided as a young girl I was going to leave a record of my life and experience that no one could rewrite or deny.”
“Hopper’s paintings are full of women like her; women who appear to be in the grips of a loneliness that has to do with gender and unattainable standards of appearance, and that gets increasingly to...”
